Alaska has spawned some fine science and nature writers. I hope we’ll be reading new essays by some of them in response to a joint call for manuscripts by Penguin Classics and the Union of Concerned Scientists.
The online collection, Thoreau’s Legacy: American Stories about Global Warming, is slated for publication in 2009. From all appearances, it will be a high-visibility effort. Ned Rozell, Bill Sherwonit, Debbie Miller, Susan Quinlan – and many more of you out there – let’s have an Alaskan or two in the mix.